FOR BETTER COOKERY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 3

FOR BETTER COOKERY.

It is interesting to noto (says tho Boston "Women's Journal") that ono of tho first measures introduced by tho women members of the Parliament of Finland provided for the regular teaching of household economics to girls, at tho expense of the State. In Idaho, soon after women were given tho ballot, they secured a law providing for a department-of domestic'science in the State University ,and for a courso of lectures on domestic science'in'the Academy of Idaho. In Colorado, Helen L. Grenfell, who sorved three terms as State Superintendent of Public "Instruction, points out that the granting of tho ballot to women'was quickly followed by the addition of manual training departments to tho schools, Mrs. Grcnfell writes: "Instead of, thinking less of their homes, women began' to consider them more carefully, and_ sought to bring into tlieso close corporations something of the scientific spirit of tho ape. Chairs of domestic economy woro established in tho State Agricultural College and the State Normal School. ' The interest in the cid-fashioned womanly arts has increased instead of diminishing." It is curious that tlio samo result should follow, even in far-awny Finland.